From the war in Ukraine to mass unrest in Kazakhstan to the people whose fight for rights have inspired countless others, here's a look back at some of the most compelling images captured in 2022 by RFE/RL's photographers.
2022: The Year's Best From RFE/RL's Photographers
- By RFE/RL
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An activist from the movement Oyan, Qazaqstan! (Wake Up, Kazakhstan!) during a protest on the day of the presidential election in Almaty on November 20. (Petr Trotsenko RFE/RL)
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Ukrainian military medics work on a patient in the besieged city of Bakhmut in November. (Serhii Nuzhnenko, RFE/RL)
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Secret Naval tunnels in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro, in November 2022. (RFE/RL's Amos Chapple)
Chapple wrote: "This image of a Yugoslavian naval toilet took on a life of its own. It ended up on the front page of Reddit, with hundreds of commenters arguing over the pros and cons of such a toilet. In a single day, the RFE/RL photo gallery suddenly started getting tens of thousands of views from Google searches. A Russian Instagram influencer I follow, who had been posting horrifying images of dirty public toilets in Siberia, was very funny with it. She posted the photo of this "self cleaning" outhouse, saying something like, "I found the solution!"
Chapple wrote: "This image of a Yugoslavian naval toilet took on a life of its own. It ended up on the front page of Reddit, with hundreds of commenters arguing over the pros and cons of such a toilet. In a single day, the RFE/RL photo gallery suddenly started getting tens of thousands of views from Google searches. A Russian Instagram influencer I follow, who had been posting horrifying images of dirty public toilets in Siberia, was very funny with it. She posted the photo of this "self cleaning" outhouse, saying something like, "I found the solution!"
